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4k dirt rally image1/10/2024 Rally racing has its own terminology that you have to learn in order to understand what the co-driver is saying but if you’re playing this game you probably already are aware of it. Your co-driver calls out upcoming directions of the track letting you know when to prepare for a turn, hill, or other change. The audio here from the engine sounds to the co-driver call outs are great too just like in the first DiRT Rally. Even more importantly, it does all of this while maintaining a smooth framerate throughout. Every car model is rich with detail and the HDR really improves the lighting whether it’s the general lighting or the headlights of the cars. Everything in the environments whether it be the foliage to the sky to the muddied up tracks themselves looks fantastic. DiRT Rally 2.0 runs at a 4K resolution with HDR to boot. Playing the game on the Xbox One X, I was quite impressed with the visual fidelity on display. I just don’t see an excuse for this in a racing game that is primarily focused around the single player experience right now. Should the servers go down you’ll be unable to race and be kicked back to the main screen which happened to me several times. The game has been suffering from some server issues since launch although Codemasters has been working on improving the experience. I’m not a fan of having to be always online in a game that has a single player mode. Now something I want to mention about DiRT Rally 2.0 that I really didn’t like is the fact that you have to be connected to RaceNet to play it. There are challenges that change daily and weekly for you to engage with as well as leaderboards where you can try to beat other player’s times. Right now you can search or set up championships for up to eight players to take part in but that’s it. When it comes to the online modes though there isn’t much here to choose from currently. Tracks can degrade which puts more on you to compensate and adjust your play style in order to come out on top in these events. Each track was fun to learn and the in-game weather keeps things varied. The game has a variety of courses all based on real world locations including Poland, Spain, Australia, New England, the USA and more. The more hardcore players can opt for turning all of the assists off as well as enabling a more challenging damage model for their vehicles. Things like traction, stability control, and more are there to help make things easier for the more rookie drivers. While the controls are challenging the game offers a ton of options to tune to help you adjust things a bit more to your skill level though. With all that said, when you are cruising along and nailing these tracks the feeling you get is exhilarating. If you mess up there is no rewind function either as the game instead gives you a finite number of restarts. The AI in the game is also challenging and won’t pull any punches in potentially running you off the road. You really have to be on your game on these tracks as they are very narrow and it’s so easy to lose control and mess up. Night time races are especially dangerous as if you damage your headlights you’ll be forced to finish the race in darkness. It’s extremely responsive and that means you can easily find yourself flying off course and into trees and handed a time penalty to top it off. This isn’t the type of racing game for everyone as the handling model is quite punishing. In terms of car numbers there are over 50 in the game in total to choose from. You can improve several different parts including brakes, engine and suspension. As you complete races you’ll earn money that can be spent on your crew to give you some bonuses as well as spend it on upgrading your cars. Some events will require you to focus more on the performance of your vehicle while others may require more thought it how much damage your car can take. Each one will require you to look at what it entails and tune your car certain ways for the best chance of winning. My Career mode has up to six different rally championships to compete in. Let’s start by talking about he Career mode in DiRT Rally 2.0. Is this latest racing endeavor worthy of your time? Now they are headed back to the rally track again with DiRT Rally 2.0. Three years ago they released DiRT Rally and then followed it up with DiRT 4. Get ready to rev up your engines as Codemasters is back again with a new entry in the DiRT franchise.
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